This highly visible event brings together students, alumni, corporate partners and Institute leaders to recognize the accomplishments of female engineering students who have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.0 and above. As a testimony to the excellence of CoE’s female undergraduate students, this year, 1200 female engineering students, representing over half of the College's female engineering students, qualified for this event.The awards banquet also serves as a platform to recognize student and faculty leaders through Student Mentoring Awards, Faculty Mentoring Awards, and Teaching Excellence Awards.
The overwhelming support of many companies for the banquet reflects a genuine commitment to the success and engagement of women engineers as they develop into future leaders. These corporate sponsors are committed to increasing the number of women in the technical, engineering and scientific fields. The active role of corporate sponsors gives them the opportunity to positively impact the careers of the best and brightest women engineering students at Georgia Tech
475 people attended the 2012 Women in Engineering Banquet held at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center on March 29th. One hundred forty seven scholarships, totaling $165,500 were awarded to deserving female undergraduate engineering students. Gina DeSimone, Boeing, was the keynote speaker for the banquet In her remarks, DeSimone noted the outstanding accomplishments of the current female Tech students, female GT alumnae and women in engineering nationally. Click here to view photos of this year's banquet.
More pictures highlighting this year's banquet can be found on the GT Women in Engineering Facebook page.